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Agent Skills Registry

Agent Skills Registry — the secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents. 80 skills across 15 categories, 16+ supported agents, 4.6k stars, free and open source. TypeScript.

By Ry Walker, founder of Tembo and Astronomer.

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Key takeaways

  • Secure, validated skill registry for AI coding agents — 80 skills across 15 categories, supporting 16+ agents in three tiers (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, and more)
  • 4.6k stars as of June 2026, up from 1.7k in March — one of the fastest-growing projects in the skills ecosystem
  • Trust over breadth — every skill gets static analysis in CI/CD, Snyk Agent Scan, lockfile content hashing, and human curation before publishing
  • Entirely free: MIT-licensed engine, CC-BY-4.0 first-party skills, no paid tiers

FAQ

What is the Agent Skills Registry?

A curated, validated registry of skills for AI coding agents from the Tech Leads Club community. Skills are reviewed for security and quality before inclusion — static analysis, Snyk scanning, content hashing — enabling teams to extend Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and 13+ other agents with confidence.

Is the Agent Skills Registry free?

Yes. The CLI and registry are fully open source with no paid tiers. The software engine is MIT-licensed; Tech Leads Club's own skills are CC-BY-4.0; third-party skills retain their original licenses.

Which agents does it support?

16+ agents across three support tiers — Tier 1: Claude Code, Cline, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf; Tier 2: Aider, Antigravity, Gemini CLI; Tier 3: Amazon Q, Augment, and others.

Overview

The Agent Skills Registry from tech-leads-club is a curated, security-hardened registry of validated skills for professional AI coding agents. Unlike open skill ecosystems where anyone can publish, every skill here passes static analysis in CI/CD, Snyk Agent Scan, lockfile content hashing, and human curation before it ships — a posture the project justifies by citing research that over 13% of marketplace skills contain critical vulnerabilities.[1] The registry is written in TypeScript and hosted on GitHub.[2]

Key stats (as of June 2026): 4,574 stars, 408 forks, 80 skills across 15 categories. Created January 19, 2026; actively maintained with commits as recent as June 11, 2026.[2][3]

Pricing

Free. There are no paid tiers — the CLI and registry are fully open source and community-driven.[3] Licensing is split: the software engine is MIT, Tech Leads Club's first-party skills are CC-BY-4.0, and third-party skills retain their original licenses.[1]

Adoption

As of June 2026 the project has grown from 1.7k stars (March 2026) to 4,574 stars and 408 forks, making it one of the fastest-growing projects in the agent-skills ecosystem.[2] The catalog now lists 80 skills across 15 categories — development workflows (tlc-spec-driven), cloud (aws-advisor), automation (playwright-skill), design (figma), accessibility auditing, and security.[3] The CLI ships as @tech-leads-club/agent-skills on npm, at v1.4.6 as of April 20, 2026.[4]

What's Changed Since March 2026

  • Stars nearly tripled — 1,717 → 4,574.[2]
  • Dedicated web catalog launched at agent-skills.techleads.club, with browsable skills and category pages.[3]
  • Three-tier platform support covering 16+ agents — Tier 1: Claude Code, Cline, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf; Tier 2: Aider, Antigravity, Gemini CLI; Tier 3: Amazon Q, Augment, and others.[1]
  • Hardened supply chain documented — Snyk Agent Scan before publishing, content hashing via lockfiles, CDN-based on-demand downloads with local caching, audit logging, and an MCP server for in-agent skill discovery.[1]
  • Interactive CLI wizard — npx @tech-leads-club/agent-skills walks through skill selection, target agent, and copy-vs-symlink install.[1]

Competitive Position

Strengths: Trust-focused curation with a concrete, documented security pipeline rather than vibes. Broadest verified multi-agent support in its niche (16+ agents). Rapid community growth backed by the Tech Leads Club community.

Weaknesses: 80 skills is a small catalog next to open, unvetted registries; human curation is a deliberate bottleneck. Backed by a community brand rather than a company — long-term maintenance depends on volunteer energy.

Cautions

  • The "13% of marketplace skills contain critical vulnerabilities" framing comes from the project's own README; treat it as positioning as much as research.[1]
  • npm release cadence has slowed — latest CLI release was April 20, 2026 (v1.4.6) — though the repo itself sees daily commits.[4][2]
  • License is non-standard at the repo level (GitHub reports "Other" due to the split MIT/CC-BY-4.0 scheme); teams with strict OSS policies should read the license file.[2]

What Developers Say

No substantial verbatim developer commentary on this specific registry surfaced in searches of Hacker News and Reddit as of June 2026 — discussion of "agent skills" as a pattern is abundant, but it centers on the skill format itself rather than this registry. Star velocity (1.7k → 4.6k in three months) is currently the best available adoption signal.[2]

Bottom Line

Recommended for teams that want to extend Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot with skills but can't accept unvetted third-party prompt code — the security pipeline (static analysis, Snyk, lockfile hashing, human review) is the most rigorous documented in the skills-registry space, and it's free. Not recommended if you need maximum catalog breadth or bleeding-edge skills the moment they appear; curation means lag. Outlook: strong — tripling stars in a quarter with daily commits suggests the trust-first registry is winning mindshare as the skill ecosystem's security problems become better understood.

Research by Ry Walker

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